BODY MASS INDEX – THE KEY TO HEALTH
The March 22, 2006 JAMA has a super article on the adverse effects of BMI (page 1412-1419). In a study of over 27,000 ”healthy” women and using one of the most critical factors in health for risk of serious cardiovascular disease and cancer, High Sensitivity C-Reactive Protein: Risk of CRP BEING > 3 Active […]
Is America Flunking Science – Or Is Science Flunking Common Sense?
The TIME, Feb. 12, 2006, headline, Is America Flunking Science? is the perfect headline for my critique of three ”Rolls-Royce” articles that appeared in the latest JAMA and made newspaper headlines throughout the country. Titled ”Low-Fat Dietary Pattern and Risk of Invasive Breast Cancer Colorectal Cancer Cardiovascular Disease” respectively, (JAMA, Feb. 8, 2006, (p. 629 […]
Self-Healing: Brief Psychotherapy with WHEE
Self-Healing: Brief Psychotherapy with WHEE (Wholistic Hybrid derived from EMDR & EFT), and other approaches Click here for details of workshop to learn WHEE Click here to register for workshop (WHEE is not EMDR or EFT. See references to these, below) Clinical Explorations When I learned about psychotherapy as a teenager, I knew that was […]
What the Bleep is Health?
WHAT THE BLEEP IS HEALTH? In December, 2005, the American Institute for Cancer Research released the results of a study which emphasized that ONLY 3% OF AMERICANS have the top 4 essential habits for optimal health! ESSENTIAL HABITS No smoking 76% Healthy Body Mass Index of 18.5-25 40% Eating 5 or more servings of fruits […]
Biased Medical Research
At least every week there is another flawed research paper that achieves major media attention. And the big journals which publish these slanted, distorted results refuse to publish any letters critical of the establishment’s chosen path to Enlightment — drugs! One of the latest to earn my scorn is ”Homocysteine Lowering with Folic Acid and […]
SCIENCE – OR PAP?
SCIENCE — OR PAP? Science refers to the scientific method – a process for evaluating empirical knowledge— or ''knowledge'' obtained by careful observation, by deduction of the ''laws'' which ''govern'' principles or ''facts. Of course, as with every word, the meaning is in the mind of the beholder! Science 2000 years ago has little bearing […]
SheLi TENS
SheLi TENS Starting in 1963 I began research to find a safe, non-surgical approach for pain. My lab experiments led me to extensive electrophysiological studies on pain. In 1965, Professor Pat Wall, then at MIT, sent me pre-publication a copy of his now-classic paper ”The Gate Control of Pain”. This prompted me to visit Pat […]
Nurse Practitioners and Physicians Assistants – The Future of Medicine
In 1963, as a neurosurgeon on the faculty at Western Reserve Medical School, I became aware that Internists were not significantly interested in caring for the medical problems in my neurosurgical patients. Internists did not give my patients with diabetes, hypertension and other major medical problems the careful attention I expected. Indeed, throughout my clinical […]
Lipitor, Thief of Memory
Review of LIPITOR, THIEF OF MEMORY Statin Drugs and the Misguided War on Cholesterol This small gem of a book by Duane Graveline, M.D. (Infinity Publishing, Haverford, Pa., 2004), $17.95., supplemented with an introduction and a foreword by two other physicians, further documents the blindness of the medical profession to the evil goals of the […]
Effective Treatment of Back Pain
During my neurosurgical residency at Massachusetts General Hospital, I often questioned the rationale for surgery for the so-called ruptured intervertebral disc. A few years later, it was obvious to me that the majority of patients being operated did NOT have a truly ruptured disc. Gradually I began to see scores of failures of surgery done […]